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Perfect Pie Crust

Makinze Gore · delish.com · 2023 · 1

Against 179 pie crust recipes

Less salt than 84% of recipes and more sugar than 81%.

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How it compares

Against the typical crust: the median of 179 pie crust recipes, per 100 g of flour.

  • Less salt than 84% of recipes: 0.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.4%, about half as much.
  • More sugar than 81% of recipes: 6.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.3%, about 5.5 times as much.
Fat: 63%, 47th percentileWater: 33%, 59th percentileSalt: 0.6%, 14th percentileSugar: 6.9%, 82nd percentileFatWaterSaltSugar
Percentile on each ingredient. Shaded ring: the middle half of recipes.

Ingredients (5)

  • 1 1/2 c. (180 g.) all-purpose flour180 g
  • 1 tbsp. granulated sugar≈ 13 g
  • 1/4 tsp. kosher salt≈ 1 g
  • 1/2 c. (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/2" cubes≈ 114 g
  • 1/4 c. ice cold water, plus more as needed≈ 59 g

flour 180 gbatter 366 g

≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.

Baker's percentages

Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 179 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.

  • Fat63% · 47th percentile
  • Water33% · 59th percentile
  • Salt0.6% · 14th percentile
  • Sugar6.9% · 82nd percentile

Oven

Temperature
not stated
median 390°F
Time
not stated
median 20 minutes

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